OT: How best to record "off-the-air" HD-TV?

[Shawn Badger]

PC HDTV cards are supported under Linux very well. They actually support
Linux before they support that other OS. I have had on for a couple of years
and to record HD it is as simple as setting the channel and then just
redirecting the output of the /dev file to you .ts file. This makes it
incredibly easy to record vi scripts.

On 10/11/07, fouldragon at aol.com <fouldragon at aol.com> wrote:
>
> PC HDTV cards are increasingly cheap and effective, but I can't speak
> with any certainty about Linux support for a given model.  Supposedly
> the DVICO FusionHDTV cards work, and are a bit cheaper than the PCHDTV
> (about $100 for the base model, versus 130), but I blew mine up before
> trying it under Linux.  The card was a bit flaky overall anyway
> (crashing possibly because of poor Windows drivers)  I switched to a
> Leadtek HDTV Cinema which people can't even seem to get working under
> Windows.
>
> Supposedly recording HDTV is easier than SDTV because it's already in a
> digital-packaged format and just needs to be plumbed to the right place.
>
> As for the cards themselves, though, a lot of them are fairly
> processor-intensive, due to much of the decoding being handed off to
> the CPU.
>
> I note that decoding a 480i broadcast seems to draw about 15% of my CPU
> (an Athlon X2 4600+), and a 720p or 1080i one, about 35%.
>
>
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